‘It does not seem equitable’

Town leaders reacted to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s most recent round of Educational Cost Sharing grants announced Friday. If imposed, the cuts would leave a majority of Connecticut municipalities with a 100 percent reduction from what they received for the…

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The pos Malloy made 0% cuts to the cities only because that’s his voting base. Keep the handouts coming to illegals, lazy trash, empty bus to nowhere, oh and corporate welfare! Anyone who voted for him and any Demorats should be ashamed!

WEST HAVEN – Republican candidates for governor shared views on how to protect students and schools against gun violence in a debate Wednesday, a week after the latest deadly school shooting in Florida. The eight candidates on the stage of…

WATERBURY – It is now up to the Board of Aldermen to decide whether to accept new recommendations regarding the salary and job specifications for the next superintendent of city schools before the job can officially be posted. On Wednesday…

WATERBURY – The city will pay $435,011 in the coming three years to keep golf pros at its two golf courses. Collectively, the courses are losing money. In the last fiscal year, which ended June 30, the city pumped $250,000…

WOODBURY – The Park and Recreation Department is calling for volunteers on Saturday to help take down the Hollow Park playscape, which will be donated and refurbished for less fortunate children. A new playscape has been purchased and will be…

NEW HARTFORD – The Board of Finance has reluctantly decided to send a proposal to preserve 85.5 acres of prime agricultural land to a townwide referendum. The motion passed by a 4-2 vote last week, with member Reginald Smith –…

TORRINGTON – Nearly $43,000 in missing rent money that police say was taken by a local apartment manager prompted an investigation that led to her arrest for first-degree larceny. Police allege Andrea Stewart, of 132 Meadow View Drive, Torrington, asked…

HARTFORD – Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is proposing to prod towns to develop more affordable housing with a threat to strip local governments of some state funding. Malloy said he is proposing such a drastic step because he has concluded…

NEW MILFORD Promoted as an unintrusive and clean form of energy converted from sunlight, solar panels are altering the landscape and striking a nerve with some environmentalists and neighbors. In New Milford, opponents of a prospective solar farm have joined…

PLYMOUTH – A Watertown teen is facing a slew of charges after police allege he drove 80 to 90 miles per hour in a 25-mph zone and struck a tree on Town Hill Road last July, killing Vincent Cammarata, 17,…

LITCHFIELD A yearlong celebration of a half-century of conservation got underway for the Litchfield Land Trust when the organization livened up a quiet winter night with a gathering in honor of supporters of the trust’s mission. The “star recognition party”…

WATERBURY – Police, acting on a cyber tip, arrested a city man Wednesday in connection with 21 felonies after they say they found numerous images of child pornography on his computer and evidence that he enticed underage girls to send…

HARTFORD – A newly minted “Connecticut Made” logo will emblazon every package Altek Electronics ships from its Torrington plant to the company’s exclusively Connecticut customers. A group of House Democrats on Wednesday highlighted the new emblem that the legislature directed…

FAIRFIELD — A man struck and killed by a Metro-North train has been identified as a prominent developer. Alfred Lenoci Jr., 55, was struck by a westbound train at about 5:15 a.m. Wednesday near the Fairfield Metro Station. Aaron Donovan,…

HARWINTON – A man fell from a bridge onto Route 8 south at about 10 a.m. Tuesday. He was taken by ambulance to Waterbury Hospital with serious injuries. Harwinton EMS went to the scene with firefighters from the Harwinton Volunteer…

NAUGATUCK – Maple Hill Elementary School was placed on lock down Wednesday as a precaution after a resident reported hearing gunshots in the area of Longview Terrace, which is near the school. Lt. Bryan Cammarata said police responded to reports of…

TORRINGTON – Shannon Marie Davis, a single mother with no criminal record, said she was struggling to pay household bills when she wrote herself an unauthorized personal check in 2016 while working as a bookkeeper for a prominent local construction…

WATERBURY – Parishioners of the closed St. Margaret of Scotland Church are suspicious of a string of decrees stripping, then restoring, then stripping again the Willow Street sanctuary’s status as a place of worship. Some former St. Margaret parishioners believe…

WATERBURY – Police arrested a 20-year-old city man on Monday after they say he used a social media app and what appeared to be a revolver during a threat to “shoot up” a city high school. Christopher Roman, of 19…

TORRINGTON – Tuesday night’s hearing on the proposed sewer connection from Woodridge Lake Sewer District in Goshen to the city’s treatment plant won’t be the last, but it may be the most memorable. The meeting at City Hall offered tense…

WATERTOWN – Police and town officials support a Main Street “pedestrian safety zone,” and they will present this plan and other ideas during a meeting next week with the Department of Transportation commissioner. The zone idea was crafted following last…

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